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TreeHugger has noted before that swapping is good for your budget and for the environment. House-swapping and home exchanges are not new; one company facilitating swaps has been doing it since 1953. It was developed as a way of getting low-cost

Domestic compost bins come in many shapes and sizes, for indoor and outdoor use, tumbling or not, to help you turn organic waste into delicious hummus for garden and pot plants. However, if until now you haven't come across your desired shape or size,

The five Barcelona-based Residual Gurus have decided to fight trash with comical roaming concerts, and are touring Europe at the moment. These talented musicians know how to transform rubbish into a spiritual

We like trees in our cities and urban zones; they enhance the air quality, provide shade and are also nice to look at. However, to get those trees into the cities is not an easy task. Josep Selga, who reinvented the way we farm

Meet George Jetson: (FAB)BOTS are robots or machines that fabricate structures and spatial formations for architecture.
Designed by master students from the Architectural Association (AA) in London and the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Cataloni

The owners of a German aquarium feel pretty confident they've got the outcome tomorrow's Spain-Netherlands match in the bag, thanks to their "psychic" octopus Paul, who has correctly predicted the results of six World Cup games thus far.

Ladies, summer is now truly upon us, well it certainly is here in London, and tis the season to have fun with our feet, though not, we must add, at the expense of the planet or people. Happily there is a wide range of seriously stylish ethical footwear

Using marble is generally not very eco-friendly; you have to dig it out, leaving a dead hole in the landscape, it takes plenty of water and energy to cut it, and, is very heavy to transport. Moreover, the marble industry creates tonnes of waste when

Years ago we wrote about the Spanish shoe company Pikolinos when they obtained the EU flower label. Since then they have made a stronger statement about their environmental commitment. This summer collection takes their sustainable

Antón García- Abril and Ensamble Studio have built La Trufa, or truffle, on the north Spanish coast. It is what one might call a solid bit of work, made of concrete in a very unusual fashion. The architect writes in Abitare

One way of treading a little bit more lightly on the ground when you build houses is to put them on stilts; last year we did a round up of houses on stilts that included construction shots and a model of Andrés Jaque Architectos "House in Never Never